Psychiatric Services
- Volume 24
- Number 11
- November 1973
Article
Publication date: 01 November 1973
Pages753–756As an aid to utilization review in a community mental health center, a checklist has been developed that nonclinical personnel can use to help assess the adequacy of patient care, as reflected in the medical chart. The review is carried out on three ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.11.753Publication date: 01 November 1973
Pages757–760Evaluation can help control costs of mental health care and ensure that services are effective. The author presents guidelines to aid mental health administrators in establishing evaluation programs. He discusses factors in assessing costs and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.11.757Publication date: 01 November 1973
Pages760–762A small community mental health program evaluates its effectiveness through a treatment outcome measurement built into the day-to-day delivery of outpatient services, in the first interview the patient and the therapist set treatment goals and negotiate a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.11.760Publication date: 01 November 1973
Pages763–768In 1971 the authors conducted a survey designed to evaluate the impact of postgraduate training at Haryard's Laboratory of Community Psychiatry on the careers of graduates between 1954 and 1970. Of 136 graduates during that period, 107 responded to the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.11.763Publication date: 01 November 1973
Pages768–770State hospital psychiatric patients evaluating their treatment teams gave them an average rating equivalent to a grade of B. Patients under 30 years of age gave significantly more negative ratings than patients over 30. Patients hospitalized from seven to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.11.768Publication date: 01 November 1973
Pages771–773A local educational television station produced and showed 16 programs focusing on learning and behavior problems of elementary-school-age children. The series was designed by a hospital planning committee to provide mental health information to school ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.11.771Publication date: 01 November 1973
Pages773–776The authors studied length-of-stay and readmission rates in Missouri's five state mental hospitals, attempting to control for diagnosis and patient-to-patient differences in chronicity. Each hospital's ratings were ranked by diagnostic category, and the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.11.773Publication date: 01 November 1973
Pages777–778In a state psychiatric institution a cross section of skilled and volunteer mental health personnel are working as a team to provide a graduated treatment milieu for 770 geriatric patients. The team screened the patients, divided them into groups, and ...
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